PROGRAM 56 th Annual Meeting Northeastern Mosquito Control Association December 6-8, 2010 Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis Sunday December 5, 2010 3:00 7:00 PM Exhibitor s Set-up: Grand Ballroom Foyer 6:00 PM Audit Committee Meeting 6:30 PM Executive Board Meeting: Barnstable 1 Monday December 6, 2010 7:00 AM Exhibitor s Set-up: Grand Ballroom Foyer 8:00 AM Registration Table Open: Grand Ballroom Foyer 8:30 AM Exhibitor Area Open First Session Location: Grand Ballroom 1 Moderator: Wally Terrill 8:45 AM Welcome and Introductory Remarks Greg Milne Commissioner, Cape Cod Mosquito Control Barnstable Town Councilor representing Hyannis 9:00 AM NMCA President s Address Wally Terrill NMCA President Clarke Mosquito Control 9:10 AM AMCA Update Janet McAllister President - American Mosquito Control Association National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fort Collins, CO
Monday December 6, 2010 9:25 AM Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program Strategies Gabrielle Sakolsky-Hoopes Cape Cod Mosquito Control 9:40 AM New Jersey Surveillance of Arbovirus and Adult Mosquitoes, 2010 Lisa Reed Rutgers University, Center for Vector Biology 10:00 AM Pennsylvania Arboviral Update Michael Hutchinson Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection 10:15 AM Coffee Break: Grand Ballroom Foyer Second Session Moderator: Tim McGlinchy 10:40AM Update on Arboviral Surveillance in Maine Ted St. Amand Atlantic Pest Solutions Sara Robinson Maine CDC 10:50 AM New Hampshire Arbovirus Update Denise Bolton New Hampshire Dept. Health and Human Serv. 11:05 AM Arbovirus Surveillance in Vermont, 2010 Alan Graham Vermont Agency of Agriculture 11:20 AM Rhode Island Arbovirus Summary 2010 Alan Gettman Rhode Island Dept. of Environmental Management 11:30 AM Arbovirus Activity in Connecticut: 2010 John Shepard Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Monday December 6, 2010 12:00 PM Lunch: On your own Third Session Location: Grand Ballroom 1 Moderator: Priscilla Matton 1:30 PM Arbovirus Activity in Massachusetts: 2010 Season Summary M. Cynthia Stinson MA Dept. of Public Health 1:45 PM 2010 Massachusetts Aerial Adulticiding Operation: A One-Eyed Cat Watching Two Mouse Holes Mark Buffone MA State Reclamation and Mosq. Control Board 2:05 PM Plymouth County Mosquito Control Project s Response to EEEV Activity in 2010 Anthony Texeira and Ellen Bidlack Plymouth County Mosquito Control 2:20 PM Utilizing Technology to Conduct an Accurate and Safe Aerial Application Caleb Stitely Dynamic Aviation 2:35 PM Coffee Break: Grand Ballroom Foyer Fourth Session Moderator: Emily DW Sullivan 3:00 PM Discerning Blood Feeding Mosquitoes and Their Catholic Counterparts Influencing West Nile Virus Transmission in Northeastern USA Goudarz Molaei Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (2009 McColgan Grant-in-Aid co-recipient)
Monday December 6, 2010 3:25 PM A Call for Interagency Collaboration to Address Mosquito Concerns Associated with Water Quality Regulations Justin Harbison Chicago, IL 3:45 PM The Cape Cod Water Resources Restoration Project A Collaboration Opportunity with Mosquito Control Stephen Spear USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service 4:05 PM Preliminary Field Results of New Chemical Carbon Dioxide Mosquito Bait Source John Prohaska, Blackstone Photonics Frank Cornine III, Central MA Mosquito Control 4:25 PM CMMCP Used Tire Program Tim McGlinchy and Tim Deschamps Central MA Mosquito Control (2009 McColgan Grant-in-Aid co-recipient) 4:40 PM Business Meeting: Grand Ballroom 1 6:00 PM Poster Session: Bogey s 6:30 PM President s Reception: Bogey s Cocktails and hors d oeuvres 7:00 PM Awards Ceremony: Bogey s
Posters Update on NZ1 Plywood Traps for Greenhead Fly Control Bart Morris and Gabrielle Sakolsky, Cape Cod Greenhead Fly Control District, Yarmouth Port, MA CMMCP Used Tire Program Ed Storonsky, Central MA Mosquito Control Perennial Pepperweed Emily DW Sullivan, Northeastern MA Mosquito Control and Wetland Management Program Pesticide Resistance Surveillance in Central Mass. Frank Cornine III, Central MA Mosquito Control Asian Longhorn Beetle Gabrielle Sakolsky-Hoopes Cape Cod Mosquito Control
Tuesday December 7, 2010 6:00 AM NMCA s 2 nd Annual Fun Run Meet in Lobby for Group Photo Leave promptly at 6:00 AM 7:30 AM Registration Table Open: Grand Ballroom Foyer 7:45 AM Exhibitors Breakfast: Grand Ballroom 1 Moderator: Sherrie Juris Continental Breakfast Exhibitors Presentations 8:45 AM Exhibitor s Area Open Fifth Session Location: Grand Ballroom 1 Moderator: Sean Healy 8:45 AM Malaria Control and Laboratory Technology in Africa: An Update on AMREF s Work Jennifer Weiss and William Yaggy African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) 9:10 AM Environmental Drivers of Aedes aegypti Distribution in Urban Areas of Latin America Maria Duik-Wasser Yale University 9:30 AM Oviposition Activity of Mosquitoes in Massachusetts Chan Suom, Norfolk County Mosquito Control Frank Cornine III, Central MA Mosquito Control 9:50 AM Vertical Oviposition Preferences in the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus Eric Williges Essex County (NJ) Mosquito Control (2009 Jobbins Scholarship co-recipient)
Tuesday December 7, 2010 10:05 AM Reproductive Consequences of a Novel Wolbachia Infection in Aedes albopictus Elizabeth Andrews University of Kentucky (2009 Jobbins Scholarship co-recipient) 10:15 AM Communicating with the Public Taryn LaScola Massachusetts Dept. of Agricultural Resources Division of Crop & Pest Services 10:35 AM Coffee Break: Exhibitor s Area Sixth Session Moderator: Ray Zucker 10:55 AM Evaluation of the Role of Mosquito Vectors in Transmission of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Theodore Andreadis and Philip Armstrong Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 11:15 AM Using Free-Ranging White-Tailed Deer to Track EEEV in Maine John-Paul Mutebi National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 11:35 AM The Other Cost of Insecticide Resistance Janet McAllister National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 12:05 PM Sixth Annual Group Photo Lunch on Your Own
Tuesday December 7, 2010 Seventh Session Location: Grand Ballroom 1 Moderator: David Lawson 1:30 PM Aerial Trial to Determine Effective Swath Width During Aerial Applications of Vectobac G David Lawson and Chan Suom Norfolk County Mosquito Control 1:50 PM Evaluating the Efficacy of ULV Applications of DUET Ellen Bidlack Plymouth County Mosquito Control 2:05 PM Low Volume Applications Have Promise in Our Attempts to Tame the Tiger Scott Crans Rutgers University 2:20 PM Why Age Grade Mosquitoes? Sam Telford Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine 2:50 PM Extended Coffee Break Innovations Symposium - Grand Ballroom Foyer Bring your innovations and inventions and be rated by your peers Mosquito Aging Workshop Barnstable 1 Rich Pollack Boston University Seating limited sign up early at the registration table
Tuesday December 7, 2010 Eighth Session Moderator: David Boyes 3:35 PM Overview of Outreach and Educational Efforts as Part of the Area-Wide Management of the Asian Tiger Mosquito in New Jersey Kristen Bartlett-Healy Rutgers University 3:55 PM The Armed Forces Pest Management Board: A Unique Global Asset Capt. Stanton Cope US Navy, Medical Service Corps 6:30 PM NMCA Banquet Reception: Bass River Room Bucket raffle Proceeds benefit the NMCA Benevolent Fund 7:30 PM NMCA Banquet: Bass River Room Installation of Officers NMCA Photo Salon & Awarding of Raffle Items 10:00 PM 2 nd Annual B-movie night featuring The Manster check the registration table for details Wednesday December 8, 2010 Ninth Session Location: Grand Ballroom 1 Moderator: Jake Jurgenson 8:00 AM Registration Table Open: Grand Ballroom Foyer 8:30 AM Trapping Container-Breeding Gravid Mosquitoes: Reiter-Cummings vs. Frommer Updraft Esteban Cuebas-Incle Northeast MA Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District
Wednesday December 8, 2010 8:50 AM Two-Four-Six-Eight, How Many Culex Can We Accumulate? The Effect of Attractant Volume on Mosquito Collection Success Using Gravid Traps Michael Hutchinson PA Dept. of Environmental Protection 9:10 AM An Overview of Larvicide and Adulticide Applications in the City of Chicago - 2010 Dan Markowski, Vector Disease Control, Inc. Alan Gettman, RI DEM (presenting) 9:25 AM Promoting Mosquito Awareness Among Elementary School Students Part II Curtis Best and Juliana Miller Central MA Mosquito Control 9:50 AM Coffee Break: Exhibitor s Area Tenth Session Moderator: Roger Wolfe 10:15 AM Bed Bugs Update on Surveillance, Treatment Techniques and Approaches to Control Ted St. Amand Atlantic Pest Solutions 10:35 AM Larval Control Strategies in the Area-Wide Management of Aedes albopictus Sean Healy Monmouth County Mosquito Extermination Commission 10:55 AM Ox Pasture Brook Dam Removal Emily DW Sullivan Northeast MA Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District
Wednesday December 8, 2010 11:15 AM Yellow Fever - The Scourge Revealed Capt. Stanton Cope US Navy, Medical Service Corps 12:00 PM President s Closing Remarks Roger Wolfe NMCA President The Northeastern Mosquito Control Association would like to thank the speakers, vendors and membership for another successful annual meeting. Special thanks go out to the NMCA Executive Board and all Committee members for their hard work and dedication to the Association. NMCA would like to wish you safe travels and best wishes this holiday season.